RESEARCH

The 10 issues the authors believe are the most important for the United States to address when it comes to balancing national security and personal liberty.

• coercive interrogations
• detentions of suspected enemies and terrorists
• trying suspected terrorists in military commissions
• targeted killing (assassinations)
• U.S. communications intercepted during the targeting of foreign persons abroad
• information collection (data-mining)
• identification of individuals and collection of information for federal files (biometric information)
• surveillance of domestic religious and political meetings
• distinctions based on group membership (profiling)
•oversight of new measures taken in the war on terrorism